Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League

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The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League,[1] (CATSIAL), also referred to as the Cairns Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League or Cairns Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League, and Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League (Cairns), was an Indigenous rights organisation founded in Cairns, Queensland in January 1960.[2] It existed until the late 1970s.[3]

CATSIAL joined the national body, the

Anglo-Australians, but the relationships between CATSIAL and the other groups grew strong nonetheless.[2]

Gladys O'Shane was president of the League.[2] Joe McGinness was secretary from 1958 to 1967,[3] and also became president of the FCAA (later FCAATSI). Because of this connection, CATSIAL became active in the federal movement, initiating campaigns such as that against the Queensland legislation relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.[4]

Most of the active members of the League were also members of the

Waterside Workers' Federation all supported the League both morally and financially.[4] Trade unionists and CPA members assisted CATSIAL with their work.[2]

The league fought to establish recognition of the fact that Aboriginal people were the

original owners of the land, and also recognition as full citizens of Australia.[2] The league's first success was getting a taxi driver who had been sacked on racial grounds reinstated, with the assistance of the local Trades and Labour Council.[4]

The Queensland group kept close ties with the CAR activists such as

Hope Vale in 1961.[2]

Some of the targets of the League's campaigns apart from Hope Vale were: Queensland legislation which still discriminated against Indigenous people (the

ex-servicemen.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League". University of Queensland. Fryer Manuscripts. Retrieved 4 December 2020. Authorized form of name: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Advancement League
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    JSTOR 27740317. Retrieved 4 December 2020 – via JSTOR
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  3. ^
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  4. ^ a b c d e "Organisations". National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (QCAATSI)". University of Queensland. Fryer Manuscripts. Retrieved 4 December 2020. Other forms of names: Queensland United Council for Aboriginal Welfare; Queensland State Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Dates of existence: 1958?–1976?
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